3 ms·
Strange, according to the queries I did on the package managers, only about 35 of the Gnome 3 installs are default, all the others were manually selected (and o
by oneplane 9y ago
Strange, according to the queries I did on the package managers, only about 35 of the Gnome 3 installs are default, all the others were manually selected (and often don't have the distro-specific extensions installed like those from Ubuntu and Debian). Most of the users in the pool I can query with Salt and OSQuery are developers/ops/engineers.
- qwerty456127 9y agoStrange indeed. Maybe they are using some kind of Linux tablets? Gnome 3 seems an amazing DE for a tablet. Or maybe this is just a habit - perhaps they had to use Gnome 3 in the past and just don't want to change anything.
- oneplane 9y agoNo, just general keyboard and some mouse usage. I suppose most of the use is because they don't use the DE itself that much, it's mostly just a launcher for the stuff they use. It's mostly full-screen IDE on one monitor, browser and terminal on the other.
- qwerty456127 9y ago> I suppose most of the use is because they don't use the DE itself that much, it's mostly just a launcher for the stuff they use. Why not use a pure WM of a kind or XFCE then? > full-screen IDE on one monitor, browser and terminal on the other. What do they do with the activities stuff then as they use to have 2 physical monitors?
- seba_dos1 9y agoExperience tells me that they probably simply don't bother and choose the DE that's either default or they're already familiar with. Most of the time you could switch them their DEs and they almost wouldn't notice.
- qwerty456127 9y agoThat was the idea: the reason the majority uses Gnome 3 is probably not because they actually like it for its unique features.